Today I are mostly been pratting about on a TS250, and inexplicably failing to fall off. Memo to self, going fast on a dirt track is one thing, stopping is another matter altogether. I *love* the look of disgust on the dog walkers' faces when you pass them on a RUPP. Makes it worth slowing down for a better look. RIIIIIIIIING-adinga-digna-dinga-ding. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Otto There are still a few around in my area. Very few. Funny you should say that... -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000
Will you two stop it. Thankyou. -- | ___ Salad Dodger |/ \ _/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z |_\_____/_| ..79553../..21469.../..31308. (>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG* |__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5 \ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4 \|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11 '^' RBR'06 Points: 75 Miles: 317
This is/was a RUPP: http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.c...m=0&scale=10000&multimap.x=176&multimap.y=226 It's the track that goes from top centre diagonally to the right and into the woods. Where it starts (at the top), it's the sort of track that you might imagine was used by a Land-Rover. Within a few yards, it becomes obvious that there hasn't been a Landie along there for a couple of years, as the brambles/hedges/weeds etc start to close in. A few more yards and they meet in the middle, but you can push your way through. This continues until you reach the wood, but by then, there's another factor in play: as it starts to climb the slope, the surface changes from Landie wheel tracks to a central gully. By the time you reach the edge of the wood, the ascent is quite steep, the gully sides are at 45°, but the brambles have ceased to be a problem, as they don't seem bothered about growing on sticky orange subsoil. Once it's back up onto the flat (a little distance into the wood), it turns back into a Landie track. The point being that it's now only passable with stout boots, thornproof clothing, an ashplant and determination, whereas if it was in regular use by motorised vehicles it would be granny-navigable. A few more years and the lower part will be a thick hedge, of no use to man or beast. -- platypus we can do all the bad things http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8065884640
And what is also fun is, as a dog-walker, seeing the hard-man riders' faces adopt an expression of disbelief and suspicious almost-pleasure when you greet them with a smile and a 'hello' as they pass. Live and let live, goddammit. A track near me has been closed off to vehicles. Someone didn't take kindly to that, and stowed a 4WD straight through the ****-off five-bar gate. Good for them, thought I. A new gate has been installed, and I really hope they come back and keep demolishing every one of its successors until the council give up.
On Sun, 21 May 2006 12:20:25 +0100, "Véritable Rosbif" snip> I'd be reserving judgement until I knew how long the track is closed for and why. It might be that 4WD vehicles have fucked it up so much that the council have closed it for a year or so to let it dry out and go from being a wide strip of mud and shit to being a decent track again. I've seen first hand the state of footpaths that have gradually widened because people don't stick to them and it's usually volunteers that then have to give up their weekends trying to stabilise them and make them safer places for the clowns that fucked them up in the first place. On the other hand the council referred to by you in your post might just be cunts and shutting the path "because they can" and if that's the case the gate wants removing.
